Word: sequel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most overused terms in television's absurd lexicon of hype. But in the 1978-79 season, when almost every prime-time show is labeled spectacular by the networks, one mini-series surely justifies the advance billing. That show is Roots: The Next Generations, ABC's sequel to the most popular TV entertainment of all time. When this 14-hour production airs over seven nights in early February, upwards of 100 million viewers may tune in to see if it is a worthy successor to the original Roots. ABC expects a huge audience but a tough one. Explains Network...
Readers of last year's Gnomes certainly found this to be true. That book, also published by Abrams, immediately hopped to the bestseller list, where it has shown remarkable staying power. This lively sequel obviously hopes to re-Ipeat the gnomic phenomenon. g Froud and Lee concentrate mainly on the folklore of the British land Emerald isles, though they note that nearly every culture has its appropriate Third World of mischievous wee folk. A Celtic bumpkin can be enticed by his loccal wood spirits into a jigathon that makes years seem like minutes. In America, a Catskill rube glike...
...sequel was made, however-The BNBs Fire Billy Martin, or some such -and now there is a sequel to the sequel. It is not accurate to say that it is without merit. There is one short scene in which Dick Button, playing a TV color babbler, describes the moves of a Japanese wrestler in terms of figure skating, the only sport his character knows anything about. This is an accurate satire of TV sports reporting, but nothing else in the film has any spark whatsoever. - John Skow
...bring Belushi to New York for the 1973 revue National Lampoon's Lemmings. He in turn eventually brought along Radner and Harold Ramis (another Animal House co-screenwriter). Then counter-raiding began. For Saturday Night Live, TV Producer Lome Michaels hired away half the cast of Lemmings' sequel, The National Lampoon Show. When Belushi departed, Simmons replaced him with Meat Loaf, then an obscure rock singer...
Poor Tatum is not totally responsible for the failings of International Velvet. A belated sequel to National Velvet (1944), the movie has a leaden gait that no actress could quicken. The blame belongs to Writer-Director Bryan Forbes, who seems to be unduly embarrassed about making a horse-race picture. Rather than tell his hokey story in a crisp manner, he has gussied up the action with dreary psychological motifs and pseudoliterary writing. International Velvet should have had the exhilarating spirit of the recent quarter-horse-race film, Casey's Shadow-or at least the plodding charm of National...